In addition to the extended schedule in Gainesville--this will be the first year Fest is four days long there--the organizers have announced a special pre-Fest event in Ybor City, FL near Tampa on Oct. 29-30. More info on that is here. Fest passes go on sale May 4; you can read about those here.

Dude. You couldn't possibly be more wrong about anything on the grounds that Latterman played last year alone.

Frankly, Fest 10 had the best lineup between Kid Dynamite, Dillinger Four, Against Me! and Hot Water Music. This year's lineup is just uninteresting and highly predictable so far. However, I am predicting that that will change in the coming months.

I admittedly never seen Latterman live until Fest last year, but I'm going to have to disagree with you after seeing them. They're one of those bands that are way better musicians than they present themselves as. Like, they actually know how to play their instruments and well.

Against Me! in 2011 was the most fun I ever had in my life. A few of us (including punknews supereditordork Brittany and poster IanIsSuperRad) were beat so we went up to the tippy top where you can hardly see the stage (it was used for merch sales last year) to sit down and just listen, but we realized no one was up there and we had a ton of room and had a huge dance off.

Then last year I saw Signals' Midwest and Sidekicks and despite seeing them almost monthly in Cleveland, that ruled.

I'm really bummed I can't make it this year. It is the only time of the year I can see a lot of people I am close to, and is generally the happiest time of my life.

I will agree if Torche doesn't drop off again. Plus the only difference really is BoySetsFire, Ann Beretta, the Draft, Bouncing Souls, I Am The Avalanche, and Big D and the Kids Table playing this year. It's almost the same line up, even with headliners like Plow United and Braid (both who I missed last year).

Good Riddance, Crime In Stereo, Dead to Me, Iron Chic, Grade, Me First and The Gimmie Gimmies, Mute, A Wilhelm Scream, Banquets, Audio Rocketry, Old Wives, and more are playing Pouzza as well. It's going to be insane.

yeah i saw that too. thats a pretty big drop from the Cleveland Indians to a rookie league team. You'd think he would have stayed around AAA or at least AA. Oh well, If it means more of a chance to see Pulley than I'm ok with it

Scott did a really poor job handing the rotation in Cleveland last year, particularly Ubaldo Jimenez. He was great as the bullpen coach - interesting to see how poorly things turned out for him so quickly. Then again, the Indians' pitching staff doesn't exactly give him much to work with, but the overall belief from the team is that he wasn't doing enough.

i actually get a chance to watch quite a few Indians games due to my proximity and yeah, their entire pitching staff is awful. Looking at last years stats is pretty pathetic. No starters with a winning record, and in the bottom 4 in the American League in pretty much every category. Scott didn't stand a chance with that bunch of ragamuffins.

Well, win and losses are a terrible judge of worth, but you're mainly right. Outside of McAllister and Masterson there isn't a starter worth a woof there. Ubaldo Jimenez is, statistically, the worst pitcher in baseball over season and a half. Derek Lowe last year absolutely shit the bed because he is old and 100% washed up. Much like Brett Myers is for them this year.

And now he's not half bad in relief again. It's funny how great that first half of 2010(?) Jimenez had. Through a no hitter. was an under 1 ERA for most of the first half and then went into the All Star Break 15-1. Everything else besides that first half of 2010 has been mediocre to bad.

Despite an ocean and a cross-country drive separating me from these shenanigans, I'm stoked for The Draft getting back together. They put out one of the best records I own. It's probably a long shot, but I'd love to see them put out another. Also, I had no idea that The Smith Street Band was big enough to warrant playing internationally. Good for them I guess. Not a huge fan, but they seem like pretty good dudes who make pretty good music.

Hey so....a lot of you are complaining about the lineup being "boring" and "the same as last year"....but I guarantee you there are a bunch of new bands on this year that you just haven't heard of and should probably check out! I'm not biased at all...but you could start with Kill Lincoln, ffo WATU, Flatliners, Less Than Jake! http://thefestfl.com/fest12/band/29/Kill-Lincoln

The car or the president? If the latter, are you successionists from the 1800's here in the future? If so, have you rethought your mission statement (band name) upon realizing that killing Lincoln would of all things, cause Daniel Day Lewis to forgo playing Bill the Butcher in a series of films mainly focused on his pet cat rather than play the slain president?
Also, if you are indeed time-travelers, I'm surprised as to your reasoning at starting off so small as opposed to pulling a Biff Tannen and just going ape-shit through the time vortex. Every song you can think of becomes your hit song (here's where it's just as easy to switch to talking about Hot Tub Time Machine and the inplausiblilty of that dreck instead of more thoughtful and realized time travel situations like the BTTF trilogy) yeah buddy, all of them...think about it.
You might want to fire up old Mr Fusion and rethink your plan before sweating your balls off in Florida.

Or you could click and find out they'll be chartering buses to get people from Tampa to Gainesville. Under-reported? Maybe. But this is one of those times where they didn't report things incorrectly - like when they post dates for a "west coast" tour that's primarily in CA and the southwest, and comes nowhere near Portland or Seattle.

It's not part of the fest. The Fest is NOT 6 days, unless they're transporting EVERY ticket holder the 130 miles. This is actually MORE egregious an error than saying "West coast" and not including the Northeast.